CGSC 1001 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Foodborne Illness, Operant Conditioning, Roger Penrose
14 Dec 2018
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Cgsc note - learning; at the cognitive level. Ways to explain: learning as a running example. Cognitive science specializes in a particular level of explanation: the cognitive level. Learning at the sociological level: fijian food taboos. Food taboos for pregnant and lactating women in fiji selectively target the most toxic marine species. Things that start dying tend to be washed away. Learning at the psychological level: eating some fish can make you sick. An individual might notice the after eating a certain kind of food, people get sick. Learning at the cognitive level: adjusting parameters on productions. Mind does what it does by ring little information processing rules called. When something good or bad happens, the productions used to et to that state of a airs are made more or less likely to re in the future. Deals with information and how it is processed. Synapses are the spaces between neurons where communication happens.
